Since the prop struts have been sorted out I have been able to move forward, built some boxes/surrounds for the stuffing tubes so when its time to perforate the hull for the tubes I have a pretty good idea of where they should go ( thanks Classicboats for this idea ).

Only today did I receive my order from balsawood.com, pretty odd experience, wont do that again ! ( almost two weeks ).

I went to a LHS and picked up some 1/8 sheets of SIG airplane balsa to cover most of the bottom then used some 1/8 thick strips for the diagonal work up front.

Transom is hard 1/16 airplane plywood substrate.

Put in some reinforcing plywood around the stuffing tube boxes and in the back where the rudder tubes will go.

Sealed the interior with Z-poxy 30 minute epoxy ( I use the 30 minute Finishing Resin when its time for glassing the outside of the hull ).

Tim & all who are currently building this model, I just had to tell you that I "lucked out" while down at the Monroe, WA Hobby Show last Saturday. I managed to purchase a "complete" and original Dumas N20 kit, along with the original Fittings N20C. One of the first things I did when I got home was to lay out the Dumas drawing on a large table and place all the pieces (everything had been taken out of the die cut sheets presumably for tracing them) on the drawing to find out what I was missing. Without having read the Build Instructions in any detail, I think I have got almost all (perhaps 98%) of the pieces. I'm going to try to get all these pieces traced along with the fittings and see if I can't make a couple of PDF files to make available here on our Forum. In the meantime, if there is something that you're not sure of or need a tracing of, let me know. I'll try to get it uploaded here asap (still working on the Arduino Tutorials at the moment). Also, according to a couple of handwritten pencil markings on the original box, this could be the 1953 Chris Craft 35' Sport Fisherman. There is no price tag attached to the kit box -it had long since popped off, but the fittings box says it was worth a whopping $6.00. There are no dates on anything that I can see, but Dumas at the time they sold the kit were at 790 S. Park Ave in Tucson, AZ. and they had a Zip code, so maybe someone who knows can figure out a date.

Thats an AMAZING stroke of luck there Barry !
There certainly are a few parts that arent defined on the plan that I need templates for, not alot of time at this very moment ( gotta go to work ) but we can work on this for SURE.